Cars that have gone out of this unit
Every photograph and clip below is our own work on our own customers’ cars — not stock, not somebody else’s portfolio. Registrations are blurred out of respect for the owners.
The workshop
Inside the unit
The workshop as it actually is: hex lighting rig, two marked bays, tyre machine and balancer along the wall.
Two marked bays means two cars in at once and no queue behind a job that has to sit while film settles. Everything happens indoors, under light you can actually inspect a finish under — which matters more than it sounds when the difference between a good wrap and a bad one shows itself only at a certain angle.
SK Zone36 Upper Brook Street, Stockport SK1 3BS
On video
Finishes and lighting are the two things a still photograph is worst at. These are unedited.
Ambient lighting, after dark
A finished multi-zone install running through its colours — door cards, dash line and footwells, each addressable separately. Every zone is addressable separately, exactly as it will be in your car.
LED steering wheel upgrade
Original wheel off, carbon flat-bottom wheel on, with an LED rev display across the top and R8-style rotary buttons — coded so every control still works.
Gloss blue walk-round
The finished 3 Series in daylight, all the way round — panel gaps, shuts and edges.
Finished cars
Gloss, matte, two-tone and cut graphics — plus the details that finish a car off: splitters, roof spoilers, chrome delete and tinted rears.
Matte military green — Mercedes GLC
Full colour change in matte, shot in our own unit with the film racks behind it. Matte is the least forgiving finish to lay: every fingerprint and every stretch mark shows, and there is no gloss to hide behind.
Gloss green with cut flame graphics
Gloss green over the whole car with a cut graphic laid over the bonnet and flanks, plus a gloss black front splitter. Cut work like this is a second layer over a finished wrap — it doubles the setting-out time.
Two-tone: gloss green into matte black
The same car from the side — gloss green running into a matte black rear quarter with the flame graphic bridging the split. Two finishes on one panel line is where the edge work has to be exact.
Matte grey — BMW M140i
The same car, wrapped again in matte dark grey. That is the argument for vinyl over paint in one photograph: a full colour change, twice, with the factory paint untouched underneath both times.
Gloss blue with a black roof — BMW 3 Series
Full gloss blue with a contrast black roof, chrome delete on the window surrounds and grille, and tinted rears. A colour you will not find on any manufacturer chart.
The rears, tinted
Same car from behind. The rear glass is tinted and the fronts are left legal — which is exactly the split we recommend to everybody, and the one the previewer on this site is built to explain.
Gloss blue — BMW 1 Series
A second car in the same blue, showing how a colour reads across two very different body shapes. Worth seeing in person before you commit — screens lie about blues more than any other colour.
Roof spoiler and diffuser
Gloss black roof spoiler and rear diffuser fitted over the blue, with tinted rear glass.
Front splitter and black wheels
Gloss green with a black front splitter, black grilles and gloss black wheels — the full set of details that stops a wrap looking like just a colour.
In daylight
Gloss blue under overcast light, which is the honest test — a gloss wrap flatters itself in sunshine.
Bumper and splitter detail
Close in on the front end: film taken round the bumper edge rather than trimmed at it, with a gloss black splitter under.
Panel edges and glass
Rear quarter detail — the boot shut line and the tinted glass, which is where a rushed wrap gives itself away first.
From the wheel studio
